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title: "Comment by Ahmet Özel on \"Stop Using Your Smartest AI Model for Everything: A Practical Workflow That Saves Time and Tokens\" | Hashnode"
description: "Model selection should be driven by task risk and acceptance criteria, not perceived intelligence alone. A useful routing policy records the task class, latency"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-using-your-smartest-ai-model-for-everything/6a5511435fe68f24da2100c5/comment/6a551304ea047b0b87f8dcfb"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-using-your-smartest-ai-model-for-everything/6a5511435fe68f24da2100c5)

Comment [Stop Using Your Smartest AI Model for Everything: A Practical Workflow That Saves Time and Tokens](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-using-your-smartest-ai-model-for-everything/6a5511435fe68f24da2100c5)

[Ahmet Özel](https://hashnode.com/@ahmetozel)

[Jul 13](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-using-your-smartest-ai-model-for-everything/6a5511435fe68f24da2100c5/comment/6a551304ea047b0b87f8dcfb)

Model selection should be driven by task risk and acceptance criteria, not perceived intelligence alone. A useful routing policy records the task class, latency budget, expected output schema, and fallback. Then the team can compare accepted quality and total retry cost rather than choosing models by anecdote.

[Akshay Gupta](https://hashnode.com/@akshay-gupta)

[Jul 13](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-using-your-smartest-ai-model-for-everything/6a5511435fe68f24da2100c5/comment/6a551304ea047b0b87f8dcfb#reply-6a551454fa61d8ba8cfa6ac1)

Totally Agree. Blindly using the most hyped model for your workflow will only cause problems in your routine tasks and will unnecessarily increase your costs.

[Ahmet Özel](https://hashnode.com/@ahmetozel)

[Jul 13](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-using-your-smartest-ai-model-for-everything/6a5511435fe68f24da2100c5/comment/6a551304ea047b0b87f8dcfb#reply-6a5516525e16adf5abf19506)

Exactly. The practical next step is to make the routing policy observable: log the selected model, task class, fallback path, latency, and whether the result was accepted without rework. After a few weeks that turns “use the best model” into an evidence-based cost and reliability decision.